PERSPECTIVE

It's Monday morning, and time for a little perspective...

So, Hurricane Irene, after all the hype, which included our blunderer-in-chief acting like he's in charge of 'stormwatch' (this....from a guy who couldn't command a raft in a bathtub...), turned out to be FAR that what was feared (sounds like H1N1, don't it?).

Not to diminish the damage caused by the storm, but news reports, which saturated the airwaves for the past week, stopped just short of suggesting that east-coasters start gathering two of every animal and begin collecting gopher wood.....

A few of the quotes today:

"People see that and assume we can predict everything. It's frustrating when people take our forecasts verbatim and say, 'This is where it's going to be at this time and this is how strong it's going to be,' because even though the track is good it's not certain." National Hurricane Center senior forecaster Richard Pasch.

"We're not completely sure how the interplay of various features is causing the strength of a storm to change. Why it did that, we don't know. That's a gap in the science."
Bill Read (Current director of the hurricane center)

“We’re still not where we want to be on intensity.” Ken Clark, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.

Listing ALL qualifying quotes would take VOLUMES of pages, so I'll assume you get the picture.

What's MOST important about the aftermath of Hurricane Irene is the fact that, for the most part, the meteorologists got it only partially right; they were MOSTLY wrong.

WHY should this be viewed with perspective?

Consider dumb ol' Al Gore, along with the ENTIRE body of Global Warming cultists...

Here's a group who claims that Global Warming (the anthropogenic part) is ABSOLUTELY "settled science". Gore himself claims that "the debate is over".

So.....how, exactly, can a body of scientists be CERTAIN that anthropogenic Global Warming is an ABSOLUTE, when those very scientists cannot predict something as minuscule (in global perspective) as the track and intensity of a hurricane?

For that matter, these scientists cannot even forecast local weather patterns with certainty; which is why you don't hear: "tomorrow, it'll rain 3 inches from 8:57am until 3:29PM....". What you DO hear is, "there's a 20% chance of rain forecasted tomorrow...".

Hirota: out.